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These Artists and Labels are Creating a Space for Underground Music in Taipei
Jon Du and Sonia Calico. All photos by Sean Marc Lee. Taiwan’s geographical location—about a hundred miles off the southeast corner of the Chinese mainland, and a few hours flight from Manila or...
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This Week’s Essential Releases: U.K. Pub Rock, Hip-Hop, and Punk
Welcome to Seven Essential Releases, our weekly roundup of the best music on Bandcamp. Each week, we’ll recommend six new albums, plus pick an older LP from the stacks that you may have missed. Flesh...
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Album of the Day: Alvvays, “Antisocialites”
Opening with a wash of candy keyboards and reverb before crashing against frontwoman Molly Rankin’s mournful, assured voice, Alvvays’ second record, Antisocialites, tugs on the threads of isolation,...
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Pyrrhon’s Brutal Death Metal Uses Pummeling Riffs to Call Out “Edgelords”
Brooklyn’s Pyrrhon have been ignoring death metal norms since they formed in 2008. On their third full-length, What Passes for Survival, the Brooklyn-based powerhouse assault the eardrums with more...
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Nosaj Thing Learns to Live in the Now with His New Album “Parallels”
Photos by Emily Berl Halfway through describing the process behind his new album Parallels, Jason Chung interrupts himself. His dog, a 10-year-old schnauzer, has entered the room, and he lovingly asks...
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L’Rain’s Debut Album Is A Rollercoaster Ride of Soul, Shoegaze, and Dance
Photo by June Canedo. In 2014, the keyboardist, bassist, and vocalist Taja Cheek realized the bands she was playing with in New York weren’t quite capturing the sound she wanted to create. So she...
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Nadine Shah’s Haunting Voice Resonates With Empathy
Photo by Julia Romanovskaya. It’s only been four years since U.K.-based singer-songwriter Nadine Shah released Love Your Dum and Mad, her mournful full-length debut, but in those four years, Shah has...
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10 Bands Pushing the Boundaries of Extreme Black Metal
Oranssi Pazuzu By design, black metal thrives on its extremism, both musically and lyrically. It’s raw, ugly, menacing, explosive, and blasphemous. So the idea of “extreme black metal” seems like a...
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Soft Glas Pays Homage to His Native Florida on the Blissful “Orange Earth”
I’m sitting in the living room about to call Soft Glas—the architect of a blissful new album, Orange Earth—when I recognize his number has a “954” area code—the same one as mine. Sure, a couple...
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Album of the Day: Rosetta, “Utopioid”
Post-metal is often described in terms of its unyielding bleakness. The genre has long been defined by its extended passages of droning guitars, its anguished vocal roars, moments of melancholic...
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The B-52s’ Fred Schneider and Cindy Wilson Reflect on 40 Weird, Wonderful Years
Fred Schneider and Cindy Wilson, 1990 As two-thirds of the boisterous vocal threesome that fronts the B-52s, Cindy Wilson and Fred Schneider are well-known for their expressive singing styles. Along...
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The Intimate Distance of Lomelda’s Indie Rock
Photo by Adan Carlo. Lomelda means “echo of the stars”; that’s the definition Texas native Hannah Read assigned to the made-up word she used as her moniker when she began releasing her music in high...
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Album of the Day: Partner, “In Search of Lost Time”
Partner, a dual-guitar, riff-slinging rock ‘n’ roll outfit from the east coast of Canada, treat rock music with about the same reverence as Weird Al Yankovic. Over stadium-worthy power pop choruses...
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Giant Claw’s Cut-&-Splice Approach to Electronic Music Gets Personal
Photo by Tom Murphy. In the music he makes as Giant Claw, Keith Rankin distills the erratic world of 21st century internet culture into a string of increasingly strange albums issued by Orange Milk,...
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Announcing Bulk Edit
As discographies on Bandcamp continue to grow (we’re now home to over 22 million tracks and 4 million albums), we know that artists and labels need a faster and more efficient means of managing their...
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Madeline Kenney Hits Her Indie Rock Stride
Photo by Cara Robbins. Oakland-based singer-songwriter/guitarist Madeline Kenney’s music was once described by The Classical’s Juliet E. Gordon as the sound Loretta Lynn might make if Lynn had a secret...
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Album of the Day: ELWD, “All Good Things”
You can call ELWD a vaporwave producer if you want, but the music he makes—slowed-down samples and drifting synths—has a sound all its own. His particular style of hypnagogic pop owes as much to the...
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BIG|BRAVE’s Howling Post-Metal Emphasizes Space, Volume, and Emotion
For musicians, life in a big city comes with advantages and disadvantages. On the plus side, there’s ready access to concerts, arts events, and other cultural activities, and opportunity to connect in...
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U.K. Electronic Label Where to Now? Pivots to Vinyl
From the smoothed-out house of Space Afrika’s Primrose Avenue to the drone excursions of Wanda Group’s Masculinity Is A Wonderful Thing, to Helm’s freewheeling, extended dreadscapes on Orange Tanks,...
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For His New Album, Producer Lee Gamble Redesigned How He Thought About Music
Photo by Sarah Ginn. Blending rave, dubstep, techno, and jungle, the songs on producer Lee Gamble’s new album, Mnestic Pressure, seek to connect the common traits undergirding these genres, teasing out...
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